Tag Archives: Environment

VICTORIA - British Columbia's opposition parties acknowledge the COVID-19 pandemic has presented huge challenges for Premier John Horgan's government, but they say Monday's throne speech must outline ...

QUEBEC - The Quebec Environmental Law Centre is coming to the aid of an environmental group targeted by an Alberta oil company threatening legal action. Pieridae Energy Ltd. issued a letter last month...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government must pull back its new Forest Act before it becomes law next month, says the grand chief of the province's northern First Nations. "We expect the province to suspend ...

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is calling on the federal government to recharge Quebec's forestry sector with an eye to its energy potential. The Bloc is laying out a slate of prop...

OTTAWA - Thousands of federal Liberals gathered online Thursday night for the start of a three-day national convention that promises to be downright dull compared to similar events held by the Conserv...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Opposition is proposing legislation that it says would protect the province's Rocky Mountains from new open-pit coal mines. "What it's about is giving voice to the hundreds of t...

OTTAWA - An advocacy group alarmed by the pace of global warming is urging federal NDP and Green Party of Canada leaders to partner in the next general election in hopes of sending more climate-minded...

Advocates for old-growth forests say they are digging in as they try to protect parts of a valley on southwest Vancouver Island from logging. A dozen or more people who belong to the Rainforest Flying...

A fourth request has been made to the federal government to get involved in the environmental review of a coal mine proposed for Alberta's Rocky Mountains. Landowners, Indigenous people and environmen...

There was a time last year when the guardians of Edehzhie would head out on the land in the Northwest Territories and worry what their communities might look like when they returned. That was when COV...